README

Our replication package contains the following data files:

covid_wave_1.csv -- This file contains the raw survey data from Qualtrics. Identifiable information (IP address and longitude/latitude) have been omitted.

covid_wave_1_clean_withcounty.csv -- This file contains cleaned survey data and the manual codings of each respondent's county. See lines 308-316 of the cleaning code for description.

us-counties.csv -- This file contains COVID cases by county from the New York Times.

co-est2019-alldata.csv -- This file contains county-level population data from the U.S. Census.

2016_US_County_Level_Presidential_Results.csv -- This file contains county-level vote shares in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.

covid_wave1_merged.RData -- This file is generated by our cleaning script. We include a copy of it separately for anyone who wishes to proceed directly to analysis.

There are two replication scripts:

Dolan and Nguyen - COVID Aid - Cleaning.R produces a .RData file of the merged, cleaned data set.

Dolan and Nguyen - COVID Aid - Analysis.R takes this merged, cleaned data set as its input and generates all figures and tables from the paper.

Please note that replication data for Figure A1 is unavailable, since this figure is generated using potentially identifiable data.

Questions? Contact Lindsay Dolan at ldolan@wesleyan.edu.